Biden’s Options to Tame Gas Prices Clash With His Climate Agenda

  • White House is exploring ways to rein in rising energy costs
  • Export bans and emergency oil flows are among the tools
Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
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President Joe Biden is under intensifying pressure to keep a lid on rising gasoline and natural gas prices that threaten the economic recovery and Democrats’ political ambitions.

But he has little power to control global energy markets.